So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Using concrete bags for retaining wall.
Driven into the bags.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
However an enterprising individual with a few sacks of concrete and a garden hose can make an equally useful and elegant concrete bag retaining wall.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
A verysimple concrete bag retaining wall with no work.
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Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
Mar 30 2013 just stack up bags on concrete leave them as is through a few big rains ir thoroughly soak a few times and then tear off paper voila.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Depending on the height of the dam wall and the capacity of the reservoir it may be desirable to leave channels for water to runoff between bags in the top tier.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
That s right the idea is that.
Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
Concrete bag retaining wall.